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If you set a task, follow it through

August 13, 2015 by Johan

If you set a task, follow it through

“If you set a task, follow it through.”

What do you think of this statement?

If you set a task, follow it through. It carries a certain weight to the words that a task you want to achieve, must be considered deeply before you affirm it and take action.

Picture of flowers with focus on the back end

Set a task and focus on the end goal.

If you would just set a hundred different tasks and try to do them all, it’s likely that you will fail or do them poorly. You have not considered the consequence of what responsibilities you need to do to accomplish them. And it would be hard to accomplish them all.

Set a task carefully and consider all the obligations that follows, for you to achieve it.

Example: Say that you would like to have a great physique. What is a great physique to you?

  • What is your goal? Do you want to compete, deadlift three times your body weight, have a six pack, or just lose some weight?
  • How much time are you willing and need to spend on it? When you want to get a body that you are proud of, it often comes with new habits you might never done or thought about before.
  • You might have to learn more recipes and become a better chef while making a habit of eating better foods with less meat and more greens.
  • Being in the gym or outdoors following a workout routine with increased difficulty by weights or leverage with your own body making the exercise progressively tougher.
  • To make more time for your new lifestyle you might have to cut down on Netflix and give up your video games.
  • It might affect your current social life. Maybe your friends don’t like it and to achieve your goal you must decide to spend less time with them. Don’t worry if so, you will find new great friends in the gym to share your interest with.

It might sound like a lot of things to improve to achieve your task, but know, that it’s worth it.

Work on each separate skill and it comes together to a new interesting lifestyle with new knowledge that will help you through your life and increase your happiness. You will meet new people and make new friends.

This is why you need to keep your goals simple and few, if you want to achieve them.

At first it might be uncomfortable to break free from your old habits and end up procrastinating, but the more hours you put in, the easier it gets. You might break your new habit in the beginning, don’t worry. Just keep doing your task and reaffirm in your mind why you are doing it. Soon you will start to feel an itch when you think of skipping it, and get a really good feeling when you pushed through and did it!

 

You will get more energy.

You will become happier and keep a good mood through the whole day, because you are following your desire and what you want to do. You might even get a little angry, because the hours are not enough right now to work as much as you want to on your goal. Stay calm, and keep working on your desire. Soon you will find ways to have more time working on your goals, and how to reduce your distractions.

It becomes easier to relax and enjoy that book you’ve been planing to read, or spend time with your family because you have no weight hanging over you of “that thing” you must do. It’s already done for today. Therefore easier to enjoy your leisure time.

You will begin to form new ideas that will help you by bettering other areas of your life. By building new habits you start to expand your mind and knowledge of things you previously had no thought of.

Example: A couple of years ago my sister spoke to me about living foods and stop eating animals. My first reaction was “What is she talking about, living foods? She knows I exercise a lot and need my proteins to continue to get stronger.”

But she opened my mind and thoughts in a new direction I’ve never had. I began to think of the environment and whether I would become a vegetarian or vegan. Later I decided to live a vegan lifestyle and see if it was possible. And it was.

It was hard in the beginning, but given time, it became a natural part of my lifestyle. At first I only thought about our earth, how to limit our waste of resources. But just a few months in, I began to think of the ethics of keeping and slaughtering animals when there is no need for it. The thought came to me as a surprise, as when I started this journey it was only about the environment.

 

On your path to your desire, your biggest obstacle is yourself.

One of the biggest obstacles is self doubt. Doubting whether this will make a difference, or give value to others people life’s. Ignore it and follow your habit every day with the knowledge that you are on the path of success. Know that you are already successful by following your desire in life.

When you believe in yourself and your desire, nothing can stand in your way. You are happy to work long hours with no breaks. Food and eating is something that you forget about or an annoyance. Remember to set aside time to eat properly, to have strength to continue with your work tomorrow.

A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits

The belief of others hold little importance, in fact they mostly hinder you by pushing negative thoughts or doubts in your mind. Listen to some of it, and ignore most of them. While you have faith in your work and habits you do every day, to achieve your goal and enjoy them fully.

 
Make time

Only way to gain success, is to make time for your desire.

How do you make time? Say no, to things not related to your goals.

That means less netflix following your favorite tv show, less video games with your friends online, less time out partying and waking up with a headache and strong hangover.

What you gain in return, is worth more then any hours playing video games. And after you have reached your goal you are welcome to play as much as you want. As you accumulate more success, overcome your many difficult struggles and achieve things you never thought would be possible in your wildest dreams. You just might not pickup the controller again. Because now you have 10 other things you would rather do with your life.

I used to play a lot of video games. At times they were fun and challenged my ability to learn them and overcome their massive difficulty. And other times I played them because I was bored. Bored with the game, bored of my life, and still kept on playing. I knew everything about them and how to achieve my goals within them. I could use a level 1 character with daggers and given time, I knew I would complete the game. And yet I kept playing them because I was afraid to leave my comfort zone and do what I really wished to do.

 

I’ve learned to never quit what’s uncomfortable.

How I might procrastinate doing something and the thought of change is scary at times. Without change, we conform and get bored. Without change and goals we get depressed thinking what happened with our life as we look back through the years. It’s okay to fail, just do it again with your new found knowledge.

 

When you ask yourself, what’s next?

You probably know what your next step is. You are just scared of doing it, and what others might think of it. Ignore that feeling and do it anyway. Step out of your comfort zone and do what’s uncomfortable.

To achieve your desire once you’ve found it, you need to make systems and habits. Create a lifestyle around them and see that they always get done. A small step every day, and over time you’ve taken a thousand steps without noticing it. Until one day you realize how far you’ve come.

Whether it’s helping others, building a great body, earning money, creating great relationships, it all comes down to your habits and systems that you’ve put in place.

 

With the habit you do every day and having your goal in front of you. there is no other way then success.

“But it drains me and all I want to do is relax after work.”

Embrace the suck.

Keep working every day and give it your best every time.

If it drains you, you probably haven’t gotten good at it yet. Once you’ve done your new habit for a while you will begin to notice progress, and that progress will inspire you to keep on going. Soon you will look forward to building your skill and working on your goal, that you can’t wait to finish your work to get home and one step closer to your goal.

It might be a struggle first to step out of your comfort zone. just start doing 5 minutes of habit of your desire, it will shift your mindset from “uh, I don’t even know where to start”, to “Wow! I’m working on this little step right now and begin to see where it will take me”. If not yet, go another 5 minutes, and another until you start to see the fun.

As you keep on doing what you want, and building that habit of working and thinking on it every day. You start to form more and new ideas. Every thing you do seem to come together in little spurts of clarity as you keep on expanding your comfort zone. It might come to you while you are doing something completely else. Last couples of days I’ve gotten at least one great new insight of something every time I’ve taken a long cold shower.

 

Give your task serious thought.

Is this something you want to achieve?

Is this something you can make enough time for?

Set a big goal that you’ve dreamed of long to achieve.

Deconstruct it with small goals on the way, how you will achieve your big goal.

 

Go do it!

Filed Under: Desire, Health Tagged With: 5 minutes, Desire, Habit, Health, Procrastination

Get a bike it’s fun!

August 6, 2015 by Johan

Get a bike it’s fun!
Picture of my bike by a lake with sunset

Nice stop to see the sunset

Why should you get a bike?

Because it gives you freedom. And it’s fun!

How many times have you been stuck in traffic and wanted nothing else then banging your head against the steering wheel, drive up on the shoulder and pass everyone? Or just get out of the car and leave it right there. I know I have.

Think, if you could set your own pace in traffic. If you want to go fast, pedal hard to feel that awesome burn in your legs and lungs. Feel that adrenaline rush taking that sharp turn going downhill and thinking how fast can you go and being able to slow down if a car comes around the turn.

Or just get on the bike to enjoy your evening after work. Just riding where you feel like. Maybe around your neighborhood taking a left there, a right there going with the flow. Stopping near a lake and walking with your bike in to the forest, to sit down by the lake for five minutes, or an hour. No worry about parking spots. If you had enough of pedaling, just get off and stretch your legs and take a walk for awhile.

 

Picture of my bike by the lake with mealTo ride is freedom.

With a bike there are less obligations to follow and more freedom.

Maintenance is simple and costs less than $50 a year. Maybe you don’t know much about maintenance yet, but bikes are simple and it’s easy to learn.

There are lots of resources online and books you can borrow. Youtube is a great place to find full how to guides to solve every problem or question you might have. Once you’ve managed to fix a difficult problem, you get an immense feeling of satisfaction that you actually did it!

 

What kind of bike to get?

Depends on what kind of person you are and where you would like to ride. Are you more into riding bike trails in the woods, going downhill or the open roads and go long distance? How is the terrain around you, lots of flat roads or big hills to climb?

Maybe you live in the city and just need a simple bike to get from A to B.

New or used?

If you have little experience with bikes, it could be easier to start with a new bike and learn to take care of it as you go. You might get overwhelmed with a used bike although there are great bikes up for sale.

 

How many gears do you want?

Many gears is nice because then you can play and feel how fast you like to keep your cadence and keep it at a constant rate. Lesser gears gives you less to worry about and might be easier to manage. Or just go with a single speed bike. Maybe a bit tougher up step hills, but you might like it especially in the city or on long country road trips.

Get a bike that screams “CHOOSE ME”!

I would recommend you to get a bike that immediately screams “CHOOSE ME!”. Your feelings about the bike comes first, second is the price. Go to two or three different stores and see what they have. Imagine yourself riding it around your neighborhood or where you want to ride. Just get a bike that feels and looks great and don’t worry, you can always sell it three months later if you don’t like it. When you love your bike, it’s easier for you to get on it more often!

 

Picture of two fixie bikes

Two fixie bikes

As a kid I had a green bmx and my last bike was a city-hybrid. Now I ride a fixie with drop handlebars and love it!

A “fixie” is a fixed gear bike with no coasting and single gear. When the bike moves, so are the pedals.

Since I changed from 24 gears to single gear I’ve never missed them and love it.

Whats truly amazing is the connection you get with nature. You feel the wind against your face, smell the air, the leaves and a hint of new cut grass. You hear the leaves rustling in the wind, the birds singing, and the traffic around you.

You get completely new understanding how precious our life is compared to driving a car. In a car you are disconnected from nature in a metal box and mostly passive without giving much effort.

You want to go fast driving a car? Just push down with your foot on the gas pedal.

With a bike it gets more real. To go fast you really need to push yourself and be active!

And the more you push yourself, the faster you can go!

It might not be so fast in the beginning, but you will be surprised, after awhile you suddenly have a pretty decent pace without even trying to and your stamina is greatly increased.

 

It’s safe to bike if you follow the laws and ride predictable. and it will increase your lifespan by several years. As a bonus you get more time spent outdoors.

If you live far from work, think about how you could bike part way.

It will save you a lot of money and stress depending of how much you can bike.

Suggest to your family and friends for a bike ride to the beach or down town for a coffee in the park.

I bet they will love it!

 

Tell me, what’s your best ride you’ve had, or where you would like to go.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: bike, Habit, Health

Learn how to be calm at all times with your breathing

July 29, 2015 by Johan

Learn how to be calm at all times with your breathing
Picture of a flock of birds in fligth

Flock of birds in flight

Have you ever felt things spinning out of control? That chaos when you can’t control what’s happening.

There is a simple technique to control your heartbeat at a steady pace and to keep calm at all times.

 

It’s being present in the moment. Its about letting go of your worry of tomorrow or the next hour. Worry of your past. Even happiness to come and happiness in the past. There is only one moment to live, and that is now. Most of us obsess over all kinds of things, and with it comes anxiety or stress. When we could just as easily be at ease and cheerful. Below are some simple techniques to use if you want to gain back the controls of your thoughts.

Being present is focusing only on this breath you breathe out in, and only on this breath you breathe out now, while listening to your body and your surroundings.

Thinking only on your single breath entering your body, and your single breath leaving your body.

This breath is light and deep, fills your lungs completely while activating your diaphragm making your stomach fill as you breathe. And as you breathe, you smile.

After awhile this breathing is almost soundless and you continue to make it deep.

If something comes to your mind, just acknowledge it and go back to focus on your breathing.

If something happy comes to your mind, just acknowledge it and go back to focus on your breathing.

If something sad comes to your mind, just acknowledge it and go back to focus on your breathing.

With this breath I still my body and breathe in

With this breath I still my body and breathe out

If it feels heavy to breath like this, stop and relax, while you go back to your regular breathing and keep your focus on listening to your breath. Don’t over strain yourself. Just like lifting you start easy.

 

Now practice this for 5 minutes while remembering that “with this breath I still my body and breathe in”, “With this breath I still my body and breathe out”.

Turn off your screen and sit straight. If you are in a chair, sit up straight without resting your back on it.

Close your eyes, smile and do this for 5 minutes and be present only listening to your breath.

If some thoughts come to you just acknowledge that “I just thought ____” and go back to your breathing.

Picture of Old trees in a park

Old pines in a park

How do you feel now? What changed a couple of breaths ago?

 

Now there are some simple techniques like the one a above and several others to use every day.

If you feel stressed out and need a break remember, “I feel calm and peaceful, calm and peaceful” as you breathe in, “I feel calm and peaceful, calm and peaceful” as you breathe out.

Whenever you need a break remember to smile and take a calm deep breath “I feel calm and peaceful, calm and peaceful” as you breathe in and “I feel calm and peaceful, calm and peaceful” as you breathe out. Go about your task in a calm cheerful way and remember your breathing.

If you need to lift your spirits and gain more energy, remember to smile and take deep calming breaths when you think “I feel strong and happy, strong and happy” as you breathe in, and “I feel strong and happy, strong and happy” as you breathe out.

 

Try it out, and remember to do it often. And when you forgot what you just were doing, that’s fine. Just remember to smile while taking a calm breath as you breath in, and a calm breath as you breathe out.

Filed Under: Being present, Health Tagged With: 5 minutes, Health, Meditate, success

What are your habits?

July 23, 2015 by Johan

What are your habits?

What are your habits and systems you’ve created to achieve whatever you desire?

Notepad of some habits I have

Some habits I have

Here are some of mine:

  • Paying myself at least 10% of what I earn that goes to future business plans or stocks that earn more money with compound interest and try to increase it every month.
  • Working one job 6am to 3pm to have food and apartment.
  • Working a second job strength training others.
  • Writing a personal journal.
  • Abstain from porn and masturbation.
  • Lift heavy weights three times a week.
  • Vegan lifestyle for better health and less suffering.
  • Train Brazilian Jujitsu to gain confidence and learn that life is though at times.
  • Approach girls I find interesting and chat for a bit. If she seems nice I’ll get her number to meet her again.

 

What are your habits?

Filed Under: Desire, Health, Relationships, Wealth Tagged With: Achieve, Desire, Gym, Habit, Lifting, Wealth

Quit playing video games and go to the gym for massive success!

July 23, 2015 by Johan

Quit playing video games and go to the gym for massive success!
World of warcraft: I used to be an wow addict

I used to be a wow addict.

You know why you are so good at video games?

Because you’ve put the time in and played them for hundreds of hours. And the more you know of the game the easier it is to understand the next game. You know the game world inside and out, the laws and rules of the game. Know what jumps you can make and where you can use that invisible wall (break the rules) to reach the next level faster.

 

You know why you suck at x?

Because you have not put the time in.

Life is difficult and when you’ve done something great like completed a project, worked 10 hours straigth or went to the gym. You didn’t get a huge explosion in front of your face with:

“CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW LEVEL 9000!”

I used video games to escape reality. I sat hour after hour in front of my computer playing games. It was an obsession that I could focus on, building my character and skills until perfection. Got pretty good at them, found some friends online to play together with and compete against others. But after x hours of sitting in front my computer, it got really tedious and after a couple of years spent like this I was bored to death! While watching porn multiple times a day dreaming of an awesome physique and a girl to fuck.

With no social skills and fat body I didn’t know where to start, but knew I had to change.

This is me 2006 resting from the party yesterday at the roof

This is me in 2006 resting from the party yesterday

I came in contact with a friend who invited me out to walk with his dog. Did that for awhile.

Later on I got a job which I had trouble going to regularly because of my sleep schedule from playing all night. Managed to push through because I had to change.

He brought me to the gym a couple of times but I didn’t stay the course. Went out with some friends for a boat trip to the beach, played some football and was completely wrecked the following day with a sunburn because I hadn’t moved that much in years.

One day I had enough and said fuck this! I was really out of shape and only thing I did was work and play computer games.

Lift weights, it helps you gain massive success!

Lift weights, it helps you gain massive success

I Started lifting seriously three or four times a week doing press, pull, legs, arms and made it a mission to always go every week however I was feeling. Tired? Go to the gym. Headache? Go to the gym. Not feeling like it? GO TO THE GYM!

With the single habit of going to the gym my whole life got better. The more I went to the gym and less time on the computer, I got more energy to do more things. And wanted to experience more.

Picture of my fit body without a shirt

This is me a couple of months ago

Seven years later this one habit has brought me massive success in life, work, health and women. Now I have two jobs, help others with strength training and plenty of attractive girls that want attention.

And its a fuckton more fun than sitting at home jerking off!

Tell me what you desire you could do!

Filed Under: Desire, Health, Relationships, Wealth Tagged With: Achieve, Desire, Girls, Gym, Habit, Lifting, Money, Strength, Wealth

Next year you will have $6808 extra in your bank account, you will deadlift 140kg and have 10 girlfriends.

July 18, 2015 by Johan

Next year you will have $6808 extra in your bank account, you will deadlift 140kg and have 10 girlfriends.

We are all busy living life, going to work, saving money, taking time to exercise and caring for our relationships. We set a lot of goals in each area. Some we achieve and others so frustrating we do not. Why is that? Lets determine our desires.

Picture of sky: Desire of freedom

Desire of freedom

What do you desire to achieve?

  • New job?
  • More money in the bank?
  • Strong and fit body?
  • Beautiful girlfriend?

Ok now we know what we desire, how do we achieve it?

 

Make a habit and automate it.

The simple thing of following your habit and doing it daily, will over time bring you massive success!

 

Wish you had a big emergency fund, stocks paying dividends or money for your vacation?

Log in on your bank and make an automated withdrawal at payday for $500 each month to another account and buy a low cost index fund. Now you are way ahead to reach your goal! Just the automated habit of monthly withdrawal will increase your chance to succeed instead of doing it manually. The market will go up and down, but it should go up given enough time. On the first year you will have $6808 dollars and on the 10th year with 8% interest your money earns $6,928. That’s more then you are saving! And total interest $32,692.66 of extra money for a total off $93,192.66 saved!

 

Year Year Deposits Year Interest Total Deposits Total Interest Balance
1 $6,000.00 $307.96 $6,500.00 $307.96 $6,807.96
2 $6,000.00 $831.52 $12,500.00 $1,139.48 $13,639.48
3 $6,000.00 $1,398.53 $18,500.00 $2,538.02 $21,038.02
4 $6,000.00 $2,012.61 $24,500.00 $4,550.62 $29,050.62
5 $6,000.00 $2,677.65 $30,500.00 $7,228.27 $37,728.27
6 $6,000.00 $3,397.89 $36,500.00 $10,626.16 $47,126.16
7 $6,000.00 $4,177.91 $42,500.00 $14,804.08 $57,304.08
8 $6,000.00 $5,022.67 $48,500.00 $19,826.75 $68,326.75
9 $6,000.00 $5,937.55 $54,500.00 $25,764.30 $80,264.30
10 $6,000.00 $6,928.36 $60,500.00 $32,692.66 $93,192.66

 

Strong and fit body?

Set aside three days a week before or after work to go to the gym. If you are tired, stressed, mind blowing headache, cheerful, well rested and/or happy, you go to the gym. No exceptions!

Three times a week with compound exercises like pull ups, dead lift, squats, bench press, rows results in 12 workouts a month. At the end of this year that is 69 gym sessions. During that time you add 2.5kg to the bar every session and with the habit of working out three times a week, you could go from deadlifting the bar at 20kg to deadlifting over 140kg at new year!

 

 

Wish you had a beautiful girlfriend?

When you are out doing stuff and see a interesting girl, make it a habit and approach her to say “Hi, I’m heading to ___ and noticed your  ___ (earings). They look silly and I like it, who gave them to you?”

Maybe she will stop and talk for awhile or she will just keep walking. Doesn’t matter you followed your desire! Now do this every time you see an interesting girl. Like the gym you do this if you are tired or happy.

The habit of approaching three girls a day results in:

  • 3 girls first day
  • 21 girls first week
  • 90 girls first month
  • 180 girls second month
  • 1095 girls over a year!

Approaching 1095 girls will probably get you 10 girlfriends.

 

 

Next year you will have $6808 extra in your bank account, you will deadlift 140kg and have 10 girlfriends.

 

What was your first thought reading this?

And how do you feel about it now?

With the simple habit of automating your life with small habits everyday, you will achieve massive success over time.

 

Tell me about your new automated habit and make a note in your calendar to check back in one month and next year how you’ve done.

Filed Under: Desire, Health, Relationships, Wealth Tagged With: Achieve, Desire, Girls, Habit, Money, Strength

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